"Use ecstatic trance to journey to the time of Beowulf and learn first hand the ancient magic of the early Nordic people"--
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"Use ecstatic trance to journey to the time of Beowulf and learn first hand the ancient magic of the early Nordic people"--
Every culture makes the distinction between ""true religion"" and magic, regarding one action and its result as ""miraculous,"" while rejecting another as the work of the devil. Surveying such topics as Babylonian witchcraft, Jesus the magician, magic in Hasidism and Kabbalah, a…
The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embr…
